Rationale for renewable fuels

The International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2006 concludes that rising oil demand, if left unchecked,
would accentuate the consuming countries' vulnerability to a severe supply disruption and resulting price shock. Renewable biofuels for transport represent a key source of diversification from petroleum products. Biofuels from grain and beet in temperate regions have a part to play, but they are relatively expensive and their energy efficiency and CO2 savings benefits, are variable. Biofuels from sugar cane and other highly productive tropical crops are much more competitive and beneficial. But all first generation biofuels ultimately compete with food production for land, water, and other resources. Greater efforts are required to develop and commercialize second generation biofuel technologies, such as biorefineries and ligno-cellulosics, enabling the flexible production of biofuels and other products from non-edible plant materials.

Rationale for renewable fuels

The International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2006 concludes that rising oil demand, if left unchecked,
would accentuate the consuming countries' vulnerability to a severe supply disruption and resulting price shock. Renewable biofuels for transport represent a key source of diversification from petroleum products. Biofuels from grain and beet in temperate regions have a part to play, but they are relatively expensive and their energy efficiency and CO2 savings benefits, are variable. Biofuels from sugar cane and other highly productive tropical crops are much more competitive and beneficial. But all first generation biofuels ultimately compete with food production for land, water, and other resources. Greater efforts are required to develop and commercialize second generation biofuel technologies, such as biorefineries and ligno-cellulosics, enabling the flexible production of biofuels and other products from non-edible plant materials.

That grant money funds a variety of projects, including projects that deal with the capture and storage of carbon dioxide, water management, coal utilization, alternative fuels and renewable energy and oil and gas....

That grant money funds a variety of projects, including projects that deal with the capture and storage of carbon dioxide, water management, coal utilization, alternative fuels and renewable energy and oil and gas....

That grant money funds a variety of projects, including projects that deal with the capture and storage of carbon dioxide, water management, coal utilization, alternative fuels and renewable energy and oil and gas....

Because of this remarkable property as a fuel , the entirety of all air and sea transportation is powered by oil, as well as 98 percent of all land vehicles (this figure takes into account trains, biofuels-powered and electric cars) ... – more often than not more polluting than oil....

Those expectations include the setback; reforms to the ColoradoOil and GasConservationCommission (COGCC), which regulates the industry; and "a just, timely transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy" as reflected in the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on ......

Ypersele also said that the 2030 target for controlling carbon emissions and dramatically reducing the use of fossil fuels was non-negotiable ... would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement signed under the Obama administration, which called on signatories to reduce carbon emissions and expand the use of renewablefuels....

WASHINGTON — Congress took a look Tuesday at a proposal on renewablefuels that moves toward the kind of policy Colorado Governor-elect Jared Polis advocates for his administration ... The RFS program is a national policy that requires a certain volume of renewablefuel to replace or reduce petroleum-based transportation fuel, heating oil or jet fuel....

The result has been what Bradley Olson at The Wall Street Journal described in 2016 as “a multibillion-dollar windfall for some of the world’s biggest oil companies,” especially BP, Chevron, Shell, which produce significant amounts of renewablefuel and sell their surplus RINs credits to the small refineries that can’t produce the mix themselves....

I don’t agree with taxing a successful fuel source (oil) to prop up untrustworthy, unreliable renewablefuel sources. When you have a successful renewablefuel source, I’m all for it! Let’s go, we’ll change over, until then, just go home and don’t tax me to make yourself feel better about your carbon use....

But for the fuel to complement and ultimately supplant oil, a roadmap is required for the evolution ... Or, gas could be a “bridge fuel”, replacing coal and oil in the medium-term to reduce emissions but then being overtaken by renewable energy and electrified transport from the 2040s onwards....

And while there’s a global surge in use of solar, wind and other clean sources of energy, this is supplementing, rather than replacing, dirty fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas power plants, the team found ... “Replacing fossil fuel pollution with clean technologies will ......